The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02
Pith and Point.

THE Deer creek Rip iSoV is the name of an
Ohio newspaper
A POLK COUNTY (Ga) man is living pleas.
antly with his eighth wife.
THERE is one branch of labor which must
always be done by manipulating pockets
Boston Bulletin.
THERE is man out in Illinois whose
name Is Joseph Gotobed. He is said to be
of very retiring disposition.
Hon. HIRAM SHELLEY will present Cornell
University with S250,000 for the improve
ment of the Sibley College of Mechanical
Arts.
Eos CLAN TwRcH, the leading Welsh
poet in America, is dead. Inflammation Of
the novels did the business for hm.-PhHd-
deiphid Press.
A SHORTHAND writer at Washington can
report speech with so much rapdity that
the speaker finds it utterly impossible to
keep up with him. philadelphia CaH.
TWENTY-FIVE miles day for six weeks is
what friend of DIR. Nichols did with diet
of apples alone. His health at the end was
better than at the beginning Church Union.
GEORGIA man at the birth of his
twentieth child celebrated the event by the
resolution that he would never from that
time buy anything, however small except
for cash
A POET has written some lines entitled
al owe No Man a Dollar" This. if true.
is conclusive evidence that he is engaged in
some other business than writing poetry
NOrrjStO1rn Herdid.
A WOMAN sold her wash-tub to a party of
rihemen for target. They pYid her ST so
for it, and after they had gone home she
went out into the field and brought it back
as good as ever it was.
A PLAcARD posted throughout this city
| recently announced the opening of the
theater royal "under the management of
Miss Goddard, newly decorated and
painted. - Dundee gazette.
SOUTH AFRICA produces a remarkable
wood called " sneezewood," which in dura-
bility is said to surpass even lignumvitn,
! producing machine bearings that have been
known to out-last those of brass and iron.
GOTHAM matron: Why, Lydia. didn't
you 60 to the cooking-school, as you in
tended?' Lydia: Yes ma, but there was
no session; the lecturess is sick" / am
very sorry; what is the natter" Dys-
| pepsia. 13d-BHs.
| ONE of the curious condolences of nomen-
| clature is that the daughter of General Logan
married a Mr.. Tucker, while the daughter
of Representative Randolph Tucker mar
ried "A Mr. Logan. Each couple have a son.
The name of one is Tucker Logan and the
other is Logan Tucker.
A CAPITAL bull is related in the life of DR..
! Sims of countryman of his own, for whom
he had prescribed an emetic, and who said,
with great simplicity: My dear doctor, it
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tried it twice in Dublin, and it would not
stay on my stomach either time
WINKELMEIER is the name of giant who
is now on exhibition in London. He is eight
feet and nine inches in height, and is there
fore more than foot taller than Chang, the
Chinese giant. He was born at Freidburg,
Upper Austria, in 1865, his parents being
people of humble life and normal size.
THE New York Tribune says there is
young business man in that city who is suf-
fering from the curious epistolary freak of
some crank Every day last month he
sisting simply of a card on which was printed
these words: Odd You Ever See Man
Who Had a Hare Lip? If so, Serve the
Lord; for He Alone Can Save"
ONE of the most eloquent preachers of
New York city tells good joke at his own
expense, as follows When was in Flor
ida last winter l preached to a negro con-
gregation one Sunday, excusng myself from
saying much on account of my poor health.
The cOlOred minister in his closing prayer
said: oh, good Lawd bless our brother l.,
who has preached to us in hes pore, weak
way"
The Hartford (Ct.) Courdnt is responsible
for the following:
The winter of 1873
Was the coolest winter that ever see.
On March twenty-fust
You could go on the crust;
With cattle and boss
You could go across
Every fence in town
Without breaking on it down.
A LONDON correspondent tells of re-
markable watch-night service at the Church
of the Ascension at Chaplain. There was a
long series of tableauX, representing the fall
of man, the expulsion from the Garden of
Eden, various scenes from Scripture history
prefgurng the advent, the birth of the
Savior and the alteration of the mag. The
g,,l,g
represented by members of the congrega-
ton, who were gorgeously dressed.
a FEW days ago certain member of con-
gress-his identity is immateral-took part
in the long and short-haul discussion I
feel it my duty, he said, " to vote for this
measure" The alert correspondent of a
San Francisco paper telegraphed this utter
ance, adding in parenthesis after the word
measure the words long and short
haul" But either through the "cussed-
ness OF the wires or the superior wisdom
of the proof-reader the sentence was printed
as follows: / feel it my duty to vote for
this measure. Uong and short hows.)"
GEORGE NoRCRoss of Upton, Mass, has a
cat which was taken sick and it was de-
cided to put an end to its misery. The ami
NAL was given ether until it appeared to be
dead and was then put in a box which
was placed in hole dug in the snow, the
ground was frozen too hard at the time to
bury it otherwise. Eight days later, the
box being still exposed, faint new was
heard coming from inside of it, The box
was opened and out jumped the cat, glad to
be released and lively and ready to partake
; of refreshments, which were provided. The
; animal appears to be cured of her sickness
and continues TO thrive.
ONE day when Johnston's army was in
Mississippi the soldiers noticed very meek
looking COW tied to tree right in the mid
die of the camps. They thought nothing
unusual was the matter however. That
night ZOO men turned in " and went to
sleep, little dreaming that the old COW was
going to disturb anybody. About midnight
some practical jokers tied a brushy limb to
the COW IS tail and gave her a start in life. She
> did not disappoint the expectations of her
| friends, but made a wild dash through the
: darkness, trampling over the sleeping sol
diers and dragging the brush over their
PROSTATE forms. The bowls and yells that
, followed in her wake added to her terror,
and faster and faster she went until she had
; run over the biggest part of JOhnston's
army. To add to the confusion, nobody
} knew exactly what was the matter.